St. Paul daily globe., 1887-07-02
SANITY CITY DOlhGS.
Michael McNanara, West Side Mason,
Shot Through the Heart While
Fighting.
His Murderer Supposed to Be a
Stranger, Who Made His Escape
in the Dark.
Myron Brown Laid to Rest by Kindly
Hands in a Pleasant Spot
in Oakland.
Rev. Sam Smith Gives High License
B0om--The Courts and
Other Notes.
MICHAEL M'NAMARA MUIR
DERED.
A West Side Tragedy Caused by a
Cheap Dog.

A West Side Tragedy Caused Dy a
Cheap Dog.
Michael Mcnamara was fatally shot
last night in row on Fairfield avenue,
West st. Paul, about half past O'Clock.
IT. F. McDonough and Patrick
Maloney, two of the men who
engaged in the row, are locked up
at the DucaS street station, and Nc
Donough is believed to have done the
shooting, but the guilt is not fixed upon
him completely as yet. ALI three OF
these men were the heads of families
living on the West side, and previous to
the row last night had been friends.
Michael Mcnamara, the dead man,
was stone mason and lived at the cor
ner of Mohawk avenue and Page, ,and he
leaves wife and seven children, the
former a sister of License Inspector
Nugent. MalOney was a laborer
employed by the Northern Pacific
road and lived at 81 Fairfield
avenue, and McD0nOugh, a bricklayer
by trade, lived with his family near the
corner of George and Ohio streets.
From Joe Villaum, keeper of the saloon
at No. IS West Fairfield avenue, where
the fatal row began, the following con-
else story was gathered:
ElILAIM'S STORY.
81 was playing cards back at the table
there with MalOney and Mcnamara,
when McDOnOugh, accompanied by
and leaned over the bar watching the
game ! don't think any of them
were very drunk. McDonough
made some remark about Maloney'S
dog, which lay under the table. That
MalOney didn't like, and Maloney and
he quarrelled for some time about the
dog, when McDOnough picked the ami
NAL up and threw it in Maloney'S facG
That started the fight. Ma
loney jumped at McDonOugh and
McDonOugh's friend, the stranger,
took McDonOugh's part. The thEee
scuffled together towards the door, and
Maloney was getting the worst of it.
When Mcnamara saw this he went in
the stranger, and they all went
out of the door fighting. / didn't go out
till two minutes later, when l heard a
shot, and ran out about twenty
feet up the sidewalk to the west
of my door. As ran that
way McDonough darted past me
the other way, ran into my saloon,
through it, and out the back door. and |
noticed Maloney walking rapidly up the
street toward Dakota avenue. The
stranger was out of sight and McNa-
mara had been carried into his sisters
house next door" p
FELL IN HIS SISTERS ARMS.
Two sisters of Mcnamara, Mrs. Sarah
Griffin and Miss Mcnamara, and his
mother, Mrs. Mcnamara, reside in the
house next to Williams saloon Oh the
west. 1t was on the. sidewalk. half
rryotY hofrtaaa1 fbic hnuca and fba co1oD1,
that Men amara fell with the 32-caliber
bullet in his stomach, just below the
heart The walk and an adjacent shed
standing close by are Spattered with
blood and.show signs of aterrible strug-
gle. McNamara'ss sister, hearing the
noise and, the shot, ran out just
in time to catch her brother in her arms
and assist him to the house. He lived
in great pain for twenty minutes, gasp
ing intelligent answers to questions put
by Officer = George .Leyde. He
stated that he did not know
the man who shot him, but
could identify him ifhe-should see him,
and he attempted a faint description,
somewhat answering 'NillaHm's descrip-
ton of the stranger. Coroner Lewis,
charge of the body. No weapons of any
kind were found in. the dead mans
clothing. and his face was only slightly
scratched. One of his hands was cut
and lacerated. and his clothing was
soaked with blood Mcnamara was
about forty years of age, heavy and
powerfully built, but is said to have
been good-natured and not of a quarrel
some disposition. Tts4t~
Maloney and McDonough were both
caught in the vicinity by Officers Arm
messy and Leyde in less than an hour
after the shooting. Neither had any
weapons on his person when searched.
McDonough is powerfully
built man, six feet high, and
has a reputation for being a
hard fighter Haioney is a shorter man.
but very strong. Blood was spattered
all over MeDgnaHgh's clothes and
smeared across his hands and face,
which were cut and swollen terribly.
Maloney was cut in the back
of the head with .. some weapon
which he claims to have been a
sling-shOt, but by whom he does not
know A physician was called and
dressed the mems wounds, but they re-
fused to talk when interviewed. Ne
Donough seemed very much depressed
in spirits, but had strong smell of
LIQUOR about him.